Release Date: 09 October 2026
Label: Delphian Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 801918343445
Genres: Classical Solo Instrumental
Composer/Series: Softest Thunder
Description
After the extraordinary success of Battle Cry, his duo album with mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston - recipient of both Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine awards in 2023 - Toby Carr returns to Delphian with his debut solo recording, on which centuries of music meet in the intimate sound-world of the Renaissance lute.Interweaving seventeenth-century English and French repertoire by Dowland, Robert Johnson, Robert Ballard and others with Carr's own arrangements of Purcell, Eccles, Satie and Poulenc, the programme traces unexpected continuities of gesture, harmony and expression across four hundred years. At its centre is Blue, specially commissioned from guitarist and composer Laura Snowden, whose heightened, personal language responds to the rhetorical elegance of early lute music while exploring the instrument's modern possibilities.
MZ Duo
Louise McMonagle
Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
Siglo de Oro, Spinacino Consort
Toby Carr
Kantos Chamber Choir, Ellie Slorach
Lotte Betts-Dean, Joseph Havlat
Meraki Duo
Andras Schiff
Mark Viner
Gianluca Faragli/Silvia Giliberto
Elisso Bolkvadze
Davide Facchini
Anna Dmitrieva/Pavel Serbin
Raoul Koczalski
Yanfeng Tony Bai
